The daily drawing has begun and I’m already seeing small differences and connections in the types of mark I’m making, how long the drawings are taking and how working at home is different than working in the installation room at college.
I’m at the beginning of the first fulll week of 13.4.13 – 13.5.13 and am anxious that the tasks I have set myself will be difficult to complete on a practical level and, indeed, may not develop into pieces that I want to show in the degree show.
For me, the outcome of this piece is as much the recording and my responses in writing as it is in the drawings produced. They will be two separate entities but as relevant as each other.
I’ve had a few weeks to test some of the ideas and worked in the installation room at college for a few days, working on the daily drawing repeatedly – horizontals, verticals, repeats. As well as the large, daily drawing, I am working on smaller, individual drawings and in sketchbooks.
Already, three days in, I am hyperconscious of time.
As well as the effect on my artistic practice, I’m interested on a personal level how this idea of dividing and cropping chunks of time to perform drawing or painting or writing (or indeed any other work or task) is going to affect the rest of my day to day activities. As I begin to wrestle with how I’m going to work and what the meaning of work will be once I finish studying – the exchange of my time for money is also starting to push forward into my thoughts.
